Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-29
A sMUGGLER's MUSFrW
What May Be Seen at Police Had
in London.

What May Be Seen at Police Hs.5.
in London.
At scotland-yard says the St. jan
Gazette, there is an almost va
museum full of the significant sr ~
times CHASTITY objects which bavs s al
the commission of great crime p'
ly the police of mo., ~
capitols have made similar calls
IN the custom house there is beias.
be room in which are kept ssla,..
of the most curious aids to snpa,'''
hollow cheeses, boxes with false ~
and the which have been ss;,.5
.he possession of persons of upsors
ingenuity but of 4 shaky honest
Paris there is similar bnt nj.
much more interesting musepm.
the existence of the octoli dotjs. =.
are levied upon great variety of s,,s
induces good many people who in !.
regards are probably honest enon,b
endeavor to defraud the reyenna
are kept some scores of the most ii.
devices of professional or amatuer Il
glers which have from time to tina
seized at the barriers of the city n
the custom houses throughout the "a
try. Most of them are exceedipOly
genius; and some are indeed OF M,
to suggest that in France even smupy
possess esprit.
What appears at a casual glance 10 ;
block of Carrara marble is really h
ed sheet-iron box. 1t arrived gt
frontier in tram from Italy, along
five similar ones. curious deprsw
ON one OF these blocks aroused The |
picion of q d0ndHier, and upon eys
nation the trick was discovered Il
boxes were filled with ballast to IA
them heavy, and at the bottom Of h
lay $1,000 worth of Venetian lace
pile OF innocent looking logs Of fife Vi
such as are burned in Paris, were fo1j
to be hollow metal tubes covered A
the bark of trees, and filled with daisl
liquors. Probably not an officer 4
possessed long familiarity with the "A
of smugglers would suspect pile Of 4
dozen ordinary soup plates Here is 1
a pile. There is nothing in the 4
suspicious about the top and bottom Il
ems; but the twenty four plates in
middle form one deep vessel with \
dozen projecting rims, and when
droit little arrangement was seizet l
vessel was filed with contraband brand
A coffin dispatched from Marseils, 1
bearing a railway liable. has a eUud
history. During the epidemic of choIel
at Marseilles, two or three years ago 4
fins were constantly passing the baui|
of that city and The officers respected
uncovered as another coifined victim
the pestilence was solemly wheeled A
on a handcart, The fear of inftctI
lulled their suspicious perhaps; but VI
the cholera was stamped out and still
collins did not diminish in n.ber i
resolved to pluck out the heart Of
mystery. The next coffin that arn1
was opened and was found to be ci1
med with choice cigars.
Perhaps the most daring scheme
cheating the Partisan city chest of WI
the museum contains evidence was /
borated by a gentleman who was N
habit of driving his elegant yiclol
every evening past the barrier a.
entrance to the Bots dc Boloune hss
always accompanied by a smart greg
who slumbered peacefully upon the Z
while his master drove. Shortly al'
sufficiently long to allow the y
tleman to make the regulation 'io1t
lac"-the carriage would return a2a
officials became SO accustomed 10 Us Y
sage that they ceased to e1amlls
and the owner drove back into ram
smart trot, courteously returning 'a'
salutations with his whip. That sll
trot was his undoing. One even the
toria ran into hevy wagon anu
master and groom we're thrown y
Monsieur was picked up insensloie y.
from a deep wound in the head u !
groom slowly trickled stream OF 'l,,
payne. The interesting meAial Wa y,
posed of zinc dexterously fashioned
painted aud he has found resting Il
in the smugglers' museum. Inc ca...i
was found to contain zinc wei w.,
was likewise full of champagne ~
rubber dress improvers arranged " n
oeal articles Of contraband nave \,
been seized; while not the least ou. .,
exhibit is an India-rubber BABY III
of containing eighteen pints OF o''''
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